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Except there is neutrino research going on. There’s also a hypothesis that right-handed neutrinos are significantly more massive than their left-handed counterparts and are actually Dark Matter
Don’t agree. There is so much interesting stuff happening in astrophysics. It’s hard to choose one.
Vera Rubin going online is already giving us a huge boost to detecting near earth objects.
And neutrino astronomy is pretty much still in its infancy. There is still a lot to learn.
We’re finding older and older objects every month. A potential bio signature has been found on Mars. We discovered our third Interstellar visitor. The next stage of the moon mission is about to launch people around the moon in the next few months. The crisis in cosmology is getting bigger and bigger.
Astrophysics is in a great shape.
It’s still a few years away, but so excited for the Europa Clipper to get to Jupiter.
The Monolith did tell you not go to Europa. Just Sayan.
The message was not to land there. Clipper is doing a bunch of flybys (to minimize the time in Jupiter’s radiation belt and extend the life of the probe). We’re good.
Can you define crisis in cosmology please? Trying to learn.
Edit: PBS Space Time and Dr Becky have done some great videos about this on YouTube.
It’s basically a disagreement on the expansion rate of the universe. Depending on how we measure it we get two vastly different numbers. And either our understanding of how the universe evolved after the Big Bang is wrong or we interpreted data from our telescopes incorrectly.
The hope with the launch of JWST was that it would go away with better data. But it seems to be getting worse.
So that makes it more and more likely that our universe formation theories are wrong. This does not mean that there wasn’t a Big Bang. But it means that what we thought happened between the Big Bang and now isn’t quite right.
So we can expect some great new theories in the next decades.
i thought neutrinos were getting less attention because the huge japanese neutrino detector exploded
The implosion incident with Super-Kamiokande happened in 2001. Repairs were completed in 2006.
The implosion incident with Super-Kamiokande happened in 2001
“HOLY FUCK, an IMplosion?!”
One of these tubes – each of which contains a vacuum – is thought to have imploded as the detector was being refilled with water following maintenance work.
I guess “vacuum tube crushed by water” needed a bit of punching up.
It was a giant cascade of implosions. More than half of the tubes (7000+ tubes) imploded. One popped which caused a shockwave which in turn imploded its neighbors which popped and set off their neighbors…
Oof that sounds expensive…
Something like $30 million to replace them all. They put some plastic covers over the new ones to try and prevent it from happening again.
Well yes, one imploded, but the shock wave created by that first implosion then shattered 6600 of them.
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